As always, Szanthax makes me laugh, and this time, with his 'new
clothes'. I am going to enjoy many nights of summoning nightmares for
all the innocent boys and girls in Sapience, retelling how this
'emperor' is showing off his 'new clothes'.

Thanks to Drachius, I had the opportunity to witness yet another attempt
to get all the city-states agree on one thing. I was not even a city or
guild official. Neither were most of those who were present, so anything
said in the meeting would never count as official.

It is unmistakably a universal truth however, that only a weak-minded
fool would ever stoop to the level of robbing and stripping the young
and naive ones. All the wealth and might in the world are not to be
gained that way. Without a grand scheme, a thief will always remain a
mere pickpocket with cheap tricks. Admirable are the scoundrels and
villains who are able to shake the whole world up.

Mistral

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Valnuary, in the year 325 AF.